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While the State street stores and
the big corporations were lining up
their dummy organizations and their
lawyers yesterday, Chicago Federa
tion of Labor officers told what they
think about State's .Att'y Hoyne's
stand against newspaper govern
ment: BY JOHN F1TZPATRICK,
President C. F. of L.
One way or another the newspapers
get what they want. If a man in pub
lic office don't yield to them they
discredit him. And, if necessary for
their ends, they go farther and dis
grace him and even destroy him.
They use grand juries and judges
in their business when that is nec
essary. They protect their sluggers
and murderers. They assist their
millionaire advertisers.
The State street stores paid over
four million dollars in advertising
money to the daily newspapers in
.seven months of last year. When
Julius Rosenwald, the friend of all
State street, is indicted under crim
inal proceedings for violation of tax
laws, they spring to the defense of
Rosenwald.
State's Att'y Hoyne is the first
public official of large powers in Chi
cago who has dared to face the news
papers and openly stigmatize them
as lawbreakers and hypocrites and
corruptionists.
BY E. N. NOCKELS,
Secretary C. P. of L.
Maclay Hoyne's public statement
yesterday Is a smash at the real gov
ernment of Chicago, the newspapers.
They are above the law and the
courts.
Judges and grand juries are bossed,
browbeaten and intimidated by the
trust press. Not only does the trust
press hire sluggers and murderers
and proteot them -from punishment
in the courts, but when they want
to the newspapers can throw a scare
into judges and grand juries to pro
tect a criminal taxdodger.
If there was any man who ought
to have been singled out by State's
Att's Hoyne for indictment it was
Julius Rosenwald, exploiter and fake
philanthropist. Rosenwald is hand
in hand with the State street stores
and other big business interests.
Hoyne hit the best pet of the news
paper trust when he hit Rosenwald.
The public statement of Hoyne that
the newspapers are openly backing
a notorious criminal violator of tax
laws was the boldest challenge any
public official in Cook county has
ever thrown at the newspapers. I
give Hoyne credit for putting up a
fight against the crowd that is worse
than any other crowd in this city
when it comes to violence and corruption.
Though newspapers set up a glad
cry that Hoyne has "abandoned"
plans 4o indict well-known rich men
for failure to file tax schedules, there
has been only one change in his
plans-.
Instead of trying to indict these
well-known rich men under the crim-N
inal law they will be prosecuted in
the municipal courts and possibly be
fore County Judge Scully for mis
demeanors. Tax officials who have used their
places on the board of assessors and
on the board of review "to help their
friends in dodging taxes on many
million dollars worth of property will
be investigated.
Inquiry may be made as to why
real estate owned by Rosenwald has
been let off with low "assessments. On
March 12.U912, Rosenwald bought a
State street lot of the Columbus
Safety Deposit Co. According to the
Tribune and other real estate news
sources, the price paid by Rosenwald
was $2,750,000. The valuation fixed
by the board of review was. $608,
000 under the actual cash value of the
property as set by the price paid.
When Hoyne startea tne. probe in
to taxirauds he announced he would
not try to get convictions in the 16,
000 cases found by his investigators
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